OpenAI outage on May 2 104-day disruption
May 2, 06:30 AM → Aug 14, 07:00 AM · 104d 0h · medium
An incident affecting OpenAI services was detected on May 2, 2026. The issue resulted in a medium severity disruption. Services were fully restored on August 14, 2026.
Impact
During the 104-day incident, OpenAI services experienced a medium severity disruption. This incident was detected through automated signals, including the vendor's own status page and synthetic probes. No user-reported data was collected for this incident, and therefore no specific user-reported issue types or affected regions were recorded. The impact was assessed based on the duration and severity of the service disruption.
Incident timeline
- May 2, 06:30 AM
PulseWatch detected the incident from automated vendor and probe signals (medium severity)
- May 2, 06:53 AM
Status updated: possible issue
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Signals cleared — incident resolved
Official updates
- May 2, 06:30 AM
OpenAI status page acknowledged the incident.
View official source - Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Slow / unresponsive clustered from 2 sources across 10 signals. Suppressed 9 redundant alerts and flagged flapping behavior.
- Aug 14, 07:00 AM
Root cause: Transient performance degradation with flapping behavior.